Painting 7. Student (S7) Female/12 Gymnasium Painting 8. Student 8 (S8) Female/12 Gymnasium
Above, you may find the interviews and semi-structured interviews conducted with these students. As you can observe in Figure 7, S7 completely scribbles the whole page and scribbles an ellipse in the middle of the page in a darker color. When replying during the interview, she states that she had bad feeling and thoughts about Christianity and that is why she scribbled the page. She responded the open-ended question by saying, “I do not like Christians and I do not have good feelings for them, they are not like us, I like my own cultural values. It is important to me that my friend shares my culture." When we looking at the painting of S8, we observe
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Painting 15 belongs to a Grunschule (primary school) student as shown above. S15 explained is painting as follows, “The sing of the cross and the sound of the horses come to my mind. because when Christians and Muslims were fighting, the Christians were unfair." When we asked how he acquired this information, he answered, “My mother told me while I was watching a movie.” If we evaluate together the expressions and drawing, we can conclude that he uses the icon – the sign of the cross – and index (cause-effect, the unfairness of Christians, the war between Christians and Muslims) indicator together. When we asked the reason why he painted red the sign of the cross, S15 replied, “When I think about Islam, the green is the appropriate color to me. For Judaism, it is blue, and it is red for the Christianity. That is why I painted the cross in red.” S15 replied to open-ended questions by saying, “I feel bad about the sign of the cross”. Likewise, the painting 16 is drawn by a Grundschule student. S16 explained the painting by saying, “The Christians wanted to throw the Prophet Abraham into the fire. The ants carried water to protect the Prophet Abraham. I believe they do not believe in Prophet Muhammad.” When we asked S16 how he acquired this information, he responded, “Before going to bed, my dad tells me stories. He told me about the story as well. That’s why I drew it.” When we evaluate his expressions and his drawing, we can conclude that S16 uses the icon – the sign of the cross, the index indicator (cause-effect/the Christians are mean and they throw Prophet Abraham into the fire) together. In addition, S16 prefers to express his thoughts with a symbol that is not directly related to the Christians today, like throwing Abraham on fire. In this sense, it is possible to state